Quotes About Self-defense

I am constantly approached by people who are willing to go to any extreme for personal safety...except practicing basic emotional control.

If you try violence, I will defend." Perhaps defend isn't the best term; retaliate is better.

It's easy to forget, there is a difference between self-defense and training for self-defense. What we are about to say applies to self-defense– not training.

Yes there are violent and dangerous criminals out there, but there are many more people in the world who will kill you for pissing them off.

In particular, Jesus' clash with the Pharisees came about not because he was an antinomian, or because he believed in justification by faith while they believed in justification by works, but because his kingdom agenda for Israel demanded that Israel leave off its frantic and paranoid self-defense, reinforced as it now was by the ancestral codes, and embrace instead the vocation to be the light of the world, the salt of the earth.

What can a woman do when scandalous gossip travels the world? If she defends herself, she sounds guilty. So I waited some more.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate.

As soon as he stopped, I poked him with my umbrella and said 'f— you!' and got out real fast.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

I didn't belong Because maybe I never wanted To belong. When everybody else danced and sang, I sat silently in my room with books, Books, and books. I used books for self-defense And as stealth bombers: I am better than you Because I have read more books than you; I am Beloved by these books; I am beloved by words.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

Let me give you free advice, kid. Whenever something is coming for you, snap its neck or double tap. Never, ever hesitate. It's infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six." – Death

This one's easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)

I'm no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She's right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)

He attacked us. What was I supposed to do? Invite him to dinner? (Sin)

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. ~ Dr. Burdette

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief

Bans on large-capacity magazines are more or less exclusively obeyed by law-abiding citizens, and will prevent concealed handgun permit holders from carrying many bullets in their guns.15 Concealed handgun permit holders usually don't carry multiple guns or magazines, whereas attackers often arm themselves to the teeth. Magazine limits mean that criminals are more likely to out-gun law-abiding citizens.

The paper fails to report that in only 8 of these 444 homicide cases was the murder weapon the gun that had been kept in the home. Moreover, the number of criminals stopped with a gun is much greater than the number killed in defensive gun uses. In fact, the attacker is killed in fewer than 1 out of every 1,000 defensive gun uses.

My numbers show that at least 16.5 percent of attacks between 2014 and 2017 were stopped by concealed handgun permit holders. Back in 2015, when I pointed out errors in the first FBI report, the authors simply responded, "We acknowledge in the FBI report that our data are imperfect." But no correction was ever made.

National media outlets such as ABC,8 CNN,9 and NBC noted that the alleged gunman told another white man: "Whites don't kill whites." It sounded as if the gunman was merely reassuring a bystander. But that bystander was a permit holder who was pointing a gun at the killer. What the killer actually said was: "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites."10 The killer was pleading with a permit holder not to shoot him.